The Intelligent Founder by Poonam Parihar

Heavyweight, deep-dives only. Operator-grade frameworks, playbooks, and teardowns on enterprise AI, quantum, telco, network and infrastructure, from a deep-tech founder (ex-AT&T, Cisco, HBS).​

What You Get

  • Weekly deep-dive — frameworks, teardowns, and playbooks you can put to work right away

  • Weekly podcast + companion article — a ~15-20-min conversation with a short written piece

  • Occasional bonus deep-dives — when an idea is too important not to share widely

What This Isn’t

  • No beginner tutorials, no prompt hacks, no generic AI news, no hype​

Frequency

~2x/week, plus occasional bonus posts​

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Near-daily, high-signal, fast. The lightweight counterpart to Intelligent Founder, living on LinkedIn.​

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  • Fast takes, short guides, PDFs, and curated links you can skim in minutes

  • Weekly digest to catch up on what mattered

  • Future: evolving toward a builder platform on aiunfiltered.dev​

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Chat/ Message:

I haven’t yet enabled chat, ( Updating 12/28/2025) Just enabled chat today, so feel free to drop your thoughts there, or in comment on posts or in notes and connect with me on linkedin and/or Twitter.

Also just got to know I made it to the rising leaderboard in sometime mid December for a minute? I think :) I missed seeing it but very motivating to begin 2026 on that note. I have been here about 6 months, and I believe I did the right thing, I can improve on my consistency and interactions though, so I am looking forward todo just that and have many more conversation and connections in 2026.


PS the two profiles below is substack pulling a prank on me with two different email addresses, I decided to keep both. feel free to follow any or both.

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